Responsive Textile Environments

Landscape and Urban Planning, 1988

2024

Figure 1: Soft textile materials: (A) Physical engagement with textiles; (B) Own digitized textile material files in CLO3D [10]; (C) Textiles draped on a disc.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017

In this paper, we define Responsive Environments as adaptive venues that possess context awareness, deliver ubiquitous computing and natural interaction. They also yield a predetermined User Experience. We propose a framework for the development and assessment of such environments and we discuss applying the framework to some examples. Highlighting benefits and usefulness of the framework.

At Toronto's 2010 Nuit Blanche, I watched as tens of thousands of visitors came in contact with Philip Beesley's Aurora. Approaching the piece with a mixture of awe and tentativeness, visitors could not contain themselves.

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

A woven textile-form is a form that is constructed simultaneously as the textile is woven. Interfaces designed with this approach hold undisclosed potential for rich interactions. However, the design of woven textile-form interfaces requires specialised tacit knowledge, which is limited even in craft and practice spaces; and it is therefore inaccessible to HCI designers. To bridge this gap, we present the material-driven journey of a multidisciplinary team to design a woven textile-form interface using various techniques such as paper models and diagrams to design for multi-layer weaving. Replacing traditional yarns with conductive yarn, we achieved woven textileforms with electronic sensing capabilities. By outlining our process, the pictorial highlights the challenges and opportunities of textile-form thinking for HCI designers. Additionally, its printed version serves as a 'paper prototyping tool' for designers to gain hands-on experience developing textile-form interfaces.

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct

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We present our findings from the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book Workshops. The workshops were designed as the first in a series of collaborative design experiences that introduce small groups of faculty/students teams from particular design disciplines to the concept of electronic textile interfaces (ETIs) through the use of a textile interface "swatch book" with the support of technician/facilitators. The work here focuses on the experience of the working relationship between the designer participants and the more technologically oriented facilitators, rather than on how much the participants learned about technology. The contribution of this work is a an exploration into understanding how through the use of technology we can bridge the gap between the distant discipline expertise needed to work on projects like ETIs.

Junctures-the Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 2004

Encircling a form allows the milliner to experience the many shapes, undulations and silhouettes of a piece. The ability to perform this in sketchbook mode in a virtual environment allows the designer to explore ideas more fully and interactively. Engaging in the bodily experience of designing for, and then weaving narratives on, computer-assisted jacquard looms is explored in relationship to reading cloth.

Prototyping Architecture: The Conference Papers , 2013

Prototyping Architecture: The Conference Papers records the Prototyping Architecture International Conference at the Building Centre, London, held on 21 – 23 March 2013, to coincide with Prototyping Architecture Exhibition. All papers have been peer-reviewed by an International Peer Review Committee. This conference was staged to coincide with the to coincide with Prototyping Architecture Exhibition. This exhibition explores the importance of prototypes in the delivery of high quality contemporary architecture - performative architecture that is inventive, purposeful and beautiful. Maximising the effective use of materials and resources whilst delivering environments that facilitate human well-being.

2020

The research presented in this paper explores how textiles can be formed into adaptive, kinematic spaces to be able to respond to its environment and users utilizing on-site, distributed, mobile robotic connectors. The project aimed at creating an adaptive system that consumes little energy while making use of textiles’ advantageous qualities—their lightweight, portability, and manipulability. This was achieved through the development of a bespoke on-material mobile machine able to locomote on suspended sheets of fabrics while shaping them. Together, the connector and the tectonic system compose a lightweight architectural robot controlled with a feedback loop that evaluates real-time environmental sensor data from the space against user-defined targets. This research demonstrates how the combination of mobile robotics and textile architecture opens up new design possibilities for adaptive spaces by proposing a system that is able to generate a significant architectural effect with ...